Roundtable: the spatial politics of everyday life

“Roundtable: The Spatial Politics of Everyday Life” is an edited version of an online-session which took place via Zoom on 9 May 2025 as part of New York University’s el taller @KJCC, a non-hierarchical intellectual community in the Inter-University Doctoral Consortium founded in Summer 2020 to foster humanistic inquiry and collaboration relating to the arts, literatures, cultures and histories of the Iberian Peninsula with no limits regarding periodization or language choice. The session was conceived as a joint book presentation of Megan Saltzman’s Public Everyday Space: Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Barcelona, Enric Bou’s Cartographies of Disappearance: Vestiges of Everyday Life in Literature and Susan Larson’s edited volume Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain. The text follows the same structure of the original session, although it has been reduced, edited and restructured for clarity and to adapt the conversation to a reading format. Moderated by Vicente Rubio-Pueyo, the conversation opens with a general question to the authors, asking each of them to put these issues of space and everyday life into the context of their respective works. It is then followed by the three authors’ respective book presentations.